Nestor Taboada Teran
Nestor Taboada Teran (1927-2015) was a Bolivian writer, novelist, historian, journalist and university professor.
He was born in La Paz and, in his youth, worked as a linotypist before he became a journalist. A prolific author, he wrote some 128 books in his long life, among them the novels Manchay Puytu (1977) and El signo escalonado (1975), both of which are considered among the best novels in Bolivian literature. He also won the National Novel Award for his work La Virgen de los Deseos (2008).
Among many honours, both domestic and international, he was a member of the Bolivian Academy of Language.[1]
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